mas·och·ist [mas-uh-kist]
noun
1.Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
2.a person who is gratified by pain, degradation, etc., that is self-imposed or imposed by others.
3.a person who finds pleasure in self-denial, submissiveness, etc.
noun
1.Psychiatry. a person who has masochism, the condition in which sexual or other gratification depends on one's suffering physical pain or humiliation.
2.a person who is gratified by pain, degradation, etc., that is self-imposed or imposed by others.
3.a person who finds pleasure in self-denial, submissiveness, etc.
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